Oracle Identity Management - Governance, Risk and Compliance Architecture

I'll have to admit that my primary reason for reading this book was not to kindle my knowledge of Oracle products, but rather get a picure of the IAM world. That proved a bit difficult, because it was not clear how the O-IAM model connected to the non-vendor-specific side of things. Not very suprising, but the foreword do describe the book as definitive guide. I'd recon the book would have been better with a "middle tier" of conceptual IAM.

Java EE6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server review

Just got through this interesting book. It provides a quite nice perspective on a default set of tools for web application development in Java. Obviously focused on config and deployment of GF, the book also covers JSP, JSF, taglibs, messaging, security, ejb, cdi and web services. Althought all very familiar topics, it's nice to have a collection to point to for referencing these proven technologies. It should be pointed out that there are no comprehensive code appendixes in the book. So it's not bloated with code, but on the other hand it's not entirely clear how web services and messaging fit into the big picture.

The primary audience of this book is web developers wanting to move a bit towards the server side, learning how to integrate scalable data providers into their applications. I'll be recommending this book to a couple of web developers.

Knowledge sharing days

Today is of our knowledge sharing days in Computas. I haven't reflected on the actual value of such days before, except the practical value of giving and attending lectures and talks.

But today I discovered that there is actually more to it than just the knowledge sharing. Being away from your current project, you get to reflect on things that are not immediatly useful to your work, but rather expands your horizon on other topics.

Such a day differs from a day at a conference in that you feel free from an obligation to learn directly useful stuff. So, with this new state of mind I got to attend .NET sessions, project management sessions and sales sessions.

And guess what - I actually learned a lot more than I expected! There are so much knowledge around that will come in handy at some point, which you never can afford spending time on learning in a normal day. But when disconnected from everyday obligations, the mind seeks other kinds of producing useful thoughts, and so attending sessions from other fields than your primary becomes so much more efficient!

So, today I'm truly appreciating this opportunity to learn something that belongs to another everyday set of mind. +1 for Computas :)

JavaOne 2010 tag cloud

I'm trying to grasp the trends of JavaOne 2010, and I figured it would be a cool approach to create a tag cloud. So - here it is: Tag cloud composed of the titles of all JavaOne 2010 sessions.

apache api applications best beyond building client cloud code community concurrency creating data desktop development device ee enterprise experience faces framework future java javafx javaserver jsr language machine mobile open oracle osgi performance persistence platform practices programming restful rich security services students swing systems technology tips tv virtual web world

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JavaOne 2010 day 2

Attended a great session on ESB best practices by Earl Nolan and Monal Daxini. Then some REST stuff of various quality. The big thing of the day was the general technical session with Mark Reinhold.

Most of the presented material were old news: Java SE 7 and EE 6. I guess the value of it is to say it's still in the pipeline. SE7 is now planned released in 2011 and SE8 in 2012. I.e. lambda expressions has been postponed till the 2012-release.

The session also had a nice and rather technical twitter client demo which can be found at https://glassfish.dev.java.net/twitterdemo

JavaOne day 1

What's better than a day full of Java? Such a day, and an BOF evening cruise on the bay :)

Contemplating on how many participants there are on these conferences, we figured about 60 000. That's a lot of hotel rooms being occupied, dinner services etc. But then there's not a room available anywhere in the city. Wonder what happens when everyone goes home on Friday ..

JavaOne 2010 !

Yess! I'm here at Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, ready for 5 days of concentrated Java juice! Tonight at 0530 pm Larry will kick off the show, and we'll be ramlin' down a path of tech discussions over an Anchor Steam pint. This will definitely be awesome!